Baron Southborough, of Southborough in the County of Kent, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created on 1 November 1917 for civil servant Sir Francis Hopwood

Francis Hopwood, 1st Baron Southborough

Francis John Stephens Hopwood, 1st Baron Southborough GCB GCMG GCVO KCSI PC was a British civil servant and solicitor....

. He was Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies between 1907 and 1911. He was succeeded by his son from his first marriage, the second Baron. He was also a civil servant and worked for the Board of Trade and Ministry of Labour as well as for the War Trade Intelligence Department and War Trade Department. On his death the title passed to his half-brother, the third Baron. The title became extinct on the death of the latter's son, the fourth Baron, on 15 June 1992.

Barons Southborough (1917)

• Francis John Stephens Hopwood, 1st Baron Southborough
  Francis Hopwood, 1st Baron Southborough
  Francis John Stephens Hopwood, 1st Baron Southborough GCB GCMG GCVO KCSI PC was a British civil servant and solicitor....
  
  (1860–1947)
• James Spencer Neill Hopwood, 2nd Baron Southborough (1889–1960)
• Francis John Hopwood, 3rd Baron Southborough (1897–1982)
• Francis Michael Hopwood, 4th Baron Southborough (1922–1992)